The Oregon Trail
1977 · 1 season · 13 episodes · Ended · NBC
Western
TMDB 5.7 · 3 votes
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
Episodes
- S01E01Hard Ride Home1977-09-2160m
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
- S01E02The Last Game1977-09-2160m
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.
- S01E03The Waterhole1977-09-2860m
After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.
- S01E04Trapper's Rendezvous1977-10-1260m
- S01E05The Army Deserter1977-10-1960m
- S01E06Hannah's Girls1977-10-2660m
Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.
- S01E07Return From Death1977-11-0260m
Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.
- S01E08The Scarlet Ribbon1977-11-0960m
A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever the risk.
- S01E09The Gold Dust Queen1977-11-1660m
- S01E10The Return of the Baby1977-11-2360m
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
- S01E11Evan's Vendetta1977-11-3060m
- S01E12Suffer the Little Children1977-12-0760m
- S01E13Wagon Race1977-12-1460m
